Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.
BILL PARCELLSWhen I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
More Bill Parcells Quotes
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We’re not playing solitaire out here.
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I just try to do the best job I possibly can – put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next.
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You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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By and large, I’ve been healthy all my life.
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I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don’t have any regard for anyone else’s perception.
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Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
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There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
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Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
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When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don’t care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
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